Union Avenue & Harrison Avenue

Union Avenue and Harrison Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bnos Nitra is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Broadway, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, ten of them schools, and five places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1999 and 2017, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Broadway
840 feet · 3 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Lorimer St/Harrison Av · B48
Within a walk
26 places
10 schools, 6 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Avenue & Harrison Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Broadway, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway G
    840 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Lorimer St J, M
    940 feet
    J M
  2. Flushing Av G
    1,150 feet
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lorimer St/Harrison Av, 130 feet away, for the B48.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lorimer St/Harrison Av B48
    130 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lorimer St & Harrison Ave 18 docks in all
    150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 249 Lynch Street Gas station
    820 feet
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Williamsburg
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1999 and 2017.

Since 2014 at least 166 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 101 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Harrison Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 2AM-5AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Harrison Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Union Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Union Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 10 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kiddies Daycare NY Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    570 feet
  2. Bnos Nitra School
    640 feet
  3. Talmud Torah Dnitra School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    660 feet
Show all 15
  1. I.S. 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos School
    670 feet
  2. Bais Ruchel High School
    890 feet
  3. Beth Rachel School-Girls-68 School
    920 feet
  4. Bnos Yakov School for Girls School
    920 feet
  5. United Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  6. Sunny Tots Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,020 feet
  7. BR School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,080 feet
  8. Beth Rachel School for Girls 60 School
    1,110 feet
  9. P.S. 380 John Wayne Elementary School
    1,190 feet
  10. Beginning With Children Charter School II School
    1,300 feet
  11. Juan Morel Campos Secondary School
    1,300 feet
  12. Beginning With Children Charter School 2 School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harmony Triangle
    80 feet
  2. De Hostos Playground
    150 feet
  3. Lindsay Triangle
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. George Washington Carver Community Garden
    870 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Pfizer Sites Development Public space
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Harrison Avenue or Union Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.